• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    16 hours ago

    I remember the days of high quality fansubs by people who were just doing it for free because they loved it.

    Those still exist and still give you a better consumer experience than these fucking dogshit streaming services.

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      13 hours ago

      Yeah, there are so many Japanese shows out there that only have subs because people liked them so much that they wanted to share them. It’s basically the reason that anime and manga even became relevant in the west.

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      11 hours ago

      Yeah the irony of it all is that professionally subtitled shows were already inferior to fansubs, because the fansubbers were a self-selecting group of people who were fans of that show specifically. I guess Crunchyroll realized that their subs sucked anyway so why pay money for them?

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        7 hours ago

        Don’t forget that those fansubbers also want the watchers to get the feeling of the Japanese dubs, switching out sentences to match the voiced lines and still bring you the message, while non-fans just translate it.

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      14 hours ago

      Yeah I still rely on fansubs for all my jdramas that don’t get official releases outside Japan (which is still most of them). The quality is instantly obvious compared to machine-generated crap.

      Cultural context and an understanding of tone and narrative coherence is critical for subtitles if you want to do justice to the quality of the writing in the original language.